Population: 17,170,428 GDP per Capita: $52,900 Government Debt as a % of GDP: 48.6% The Netherlands has recently made global energy headlines through a court ruling that will force Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030. But while the country continues to make some of the largest noise with regard to decarbonization, having added 29% of its renewable energy capacity in 2019 and doubled the share of energy from renewable sources from 2008, an embedded history of petrochemicals and limited space for onshore renewables has seen it lag behind many European siblings. Of the IEA’s member countries, the Netherlands has the third highest share of dependency on fossil fuels – only behind Australia and Poland…